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- Wine trade loan exhibition of drinking vessels, also books & documents, etc., Vintners' Hall, London, June-July, 1933, no. 9.
The Arts of Man, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, TX, October-December 1962.
Selection from the Burnap Collection of English Ceramics, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, February 2-March 2, 1964.
Selection from the Burnap Collection of English Ceramics, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, February 2-March 2, 1964.
Both practical and playful, British drinking vessels came in many forms and sizes. Fermented beverages such as wine and ale provided a safe alternative to the often unsafe water supplies of 17th- and 18th-century towns. Ale was served at all meals and consumed by all strata and ages of society in mugs or drunk convivially in a large tankard, such as the delftware example in this case. Also popular, wine from France, Spain, Portugal and Italy was stored in casks and decanted into bottles for serving. Cleverly crafted fuddling cups and puzzle cups added amusement and skill to the drinking experience.
Francis L. Berry (1877-1936), London by 1937;
His posthumous sale Well-known Collection of Old English Glass and Pottery, Together with a Few Specimens of Greek & Roman Glass, by Christie, Manson & Woods, London, June 21, 1937, lot 9;
Mr. Frank P. (1861-1957) and Mrs. Harriet C. (1866-1947) Burnap, Kansas City, MO, by 1941;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1941.
Christie, Manson & Woods, Well-known Collection of Old English Glass and Pottery, Together with a Few Specimens of Greek & Roman Glass (London: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1937), 5.
Ross E. Taggart, The Frank P. and Harriet C. Burnap Collection of English Pottery in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, rev. ed. (1953; Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1967), 26 (repro.).
